Cloud Engineer-Senior Consultant-Digital Excellence in Manchester

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Our Cloud Engineering Consultants sit within Digital Excellence, part of the Business Technology practice in Capgemini Invent, which leads digital transformation projects across Capgemini. We are a new and dynamic community that values innovation, professional development, and the ability to make a real difference for our clients. We work in diverse multi-disciplinary teams, hand-in-glove with our clients. As one of our Cloud Engineers, you will design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure. You will develop automated build and deployment pipelines, implement monitoring and alerting solutions, troubleshoot production issues, ensure security and compliance, and optimize infrastructure. You will be using a variety of technologies such as Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes and have exposure to public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure or GCP.

As Part Of Your Role You Will:

• Be a senior or lead engineer
• Work with the architect and the cross-discipline development teams to implement the relevant CI/CD automation for the team’s needs.
• Be responsible for the infrastructure provisioning, configuration, build, deployment and monitoring using Infrastructure as Code.
• Work with clients and internal teams to develop new opportunities and create a DevOps culture.
• Provide operational support including application monitoring and troubleshooting
• Conduct systems tests for security, performance, and availability
• Share your knowledge and experience with colleagues as you coach them and mentor them, helping the team to grow their skills, as well as developing your own skills by experimenting with and learning new technologies.

Your Profile:

To be considered for this position you must hold active SC (Security Check) clearance, or be eligible to gain this level of clearance. You will also have:

• 5+ years experience working with multiple cloud technologies and services - seeking strong experience with Azure, GCP and/or OCI. Exemplary AWS CVs will be considered.
• Proven experience in DevOps processes and best practices
• Extensive experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines - GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins etc
• Extensive experience with containerisation, virtualisation, and orchestration technologies - Docker, Kubernetes etc
• Extensive experience using Infrastructure as Code for configuration management and code implementation - Terraform etc.
• Experience setting up and using monitoring and alerting tools such as Dynatrace, Grafana, Cloudwatch etc.
• Experience using Configuration management tools like Puppet, Ansible, Packer, Chef.
• Experience with various testing tooling - Selenium, Cucumber etc
• Experience in scripting - bash/shell
• Ability to be flexible and support the development, deployment, and pipelines of a variety of technologies - such as Java Spring Boot microservices, NodeJS frontend services, SQL/NoSQL databases and a variety of cloud components.
• Experience using version control software - Git
• Experience using online version control tools - GitHub, GitLab etc
• Experience working in an agile team environment
• Ability to converse with both internal and external stakeholders, always holding the appropriate level of conversation
• Strong soft skills key to consulting: time and risk management, problem solving, leading with empathy

What you’ll love about working here:

You’ll gain exposure to high-profile transformations and gain hands-on exposure to leading technologies. Our consultants are formally trained by industry experts in consulting and client delivery. Consultants have access to a vast array of different training and certifications in a variety of areas: cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), programming (Java, Kotlin, NodeJS, Spring Boot), DevOps (Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker), Cybersecurity (CISSP, CISM) and Agile delivery (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Scaled Agile Framework). Capgemini Invent offers you the flexibility to develop various areas of knowledge in technical domains aligned both to your interests and our client’s outcomes.

Les Fontaines: Capgemini Invent has a unique training environment just outside of Paris, where we can immerse ourselves in thought-leadership, share knowledge and build capabilities that will help us and our clients to succeed. We hold monthly showcases of our digital transformation initiatives, sharing knowledge and showing off how the power of technology is impacting our clients. There are monthly team drinks, and it’s a chance to connect face-to-face with the wider team over a few drinks in the city. The monthly team breakfasts give you a different, more relaxed setting to meet up in the office to hear from the leadership, meet colleagues and discuss the trends and insights within the market. Team away days are always a chance to connect with the team, have fun and learn something new.

Need to know:

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring your whole self to work. We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce as a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

We are a Disability Confident Employer. Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident Scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who declare they have a disability, and meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. Please opt in during the application process.

CSR:

We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice. We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 350,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.